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Volume XCV, Number 9
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 19, 1984
Rivers finds laughs Bryin at UCLA . . . oops, USC
By Chris Willman
Entertainment Writer
and Cornell Barnard
City Writer
"Ladies and gentlemen/' said Joan Rivers over the PA, introducing opening comedian Gary Shandling, "UCLA presents — oops, I know, I know, USC ... I read the check."
And what a check it was —
525,000, if her exit line to last night's capacity crowd in Bo-vard Auditorium was to be believed. But the audience, many of whom camped out all night in line for the floor-level $13.50 seats, clearly felt she was worth it, awarding her standing ovations upon her entrance and exit (and even a re-entry after a microphone replacement).
The few boos came when she referred to a fictional concert the night before at UCLA, though this was actually her first college concert in five years.
Of course, Rivers is no stranger to boos, having brought down on herself more than her share of wrath from the more sensitive in the past for her celebrity attacks, like these last night:
On Ted Kennedy: "He has a bumper sticker on his car that says 'I brake for fish.' "
On Liz Taylor: "Liz wore a yellow dress once and 10 kids tried to board her."
On Jesse Jackson: "The man's a great dancer and singer, but I'm sorry, that is not enough!"
On Jane Fonda: "I was going to buy her tape, but she wanted 75 bucks for it, so screw her. Henry Fonda's exercise tape is only $5 and a lot easier. It only has two exercises: rolling your
eyes back and dropping dead."
On Kansas: "Did you see The Day After? I was rooting for the goddam missile."
On Yoko Ono: "Is she ugly? If you ever saw her float in your pool, you'd kill your pet. I have a theory: I think John Lennon killed himself."
National Enquirer types weren't the only ones embarrassed by Rivers. One young woman in the front row was asked her bra size during a routine, not to mention when she first menstruated. (She was reimbursed at the close with an eight-foot palm Rivers dragged across the stage.)
And, as usual, self-denigration was a prominent part of Rivers' routine. "If you're not pretty, you better be funny," she noted, but most of the crowd seemed to think she was both as it gave her wolf-whistles for a resplendent black gown allegedly borrow’ed from Michael Jackson.
"Mv mother tried to have an
abortion," she claimed. "She never said so, but I was bom with a coat hanger in my ear. Every night she would tell me to go hang myself up."
Her own bust size wras a primary target, as she recalled desperate teenage summers of no growth. "Do you know what it's like to put sugar and water on your chest and pray for killer bees?"
Rivers also had some advice for the female students in the audience. "I spit on education for women. Girls, be serious! All you need is a pretty face and a trick pelvis, and you're home-free."
Jackie Onassis was praised as "the smartest woman of our generation. She was smart and lucky — smart to marry him and lucky to have him drop dead and leave 28 million bucks."
Marrying rich makes up for the trouble of faking orgasms, she added. "You close your eyes and start saying store names: (Continued on page 3)
CRAIG STEWART DAILY TROJAN
JOAN RIVERS
Professors’ salaries vary with gender
By Jennifer Cray
Gty Writer %
Female faculty members at the university earned lower salaries during the 1982-83 school year than male faculty members of the same rank, according to a recent federal study.
The average salary of a female faculty member at the university last year was $30,900, while the average male faculty member earned $35,300. These numbers represent the average salaries for professors, associate professors and assistant professors.
The difference in pay is consistent with national averages, according to figures compiled from more than 2,700 colleges and universities by the National Center for Education Statistics.
On the national level, women in the three highest professorial
ranks received a mean salary of $23,487, while men received $29,001 — a difference of 19 percent.
The statistics show that the higher the rank of the professor at the university, the wider the gap between male and female salaries.
Women having the rank of full professor made an average of $39,600 last year, $5,600 less than the $45,200 earned by males at the same level. Women at the assistant professor level earned an average of $23,400, a difference of $3,600 from the average male assistant professor's salarv of $27,000.
Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, said that ''rank by rank, discipline by discipline," women
(Continued on page 3)
Jim Perry leaves post
for Herald-Examiner
JON SOO HOO
JIM PERRY
Sports information director takes job as sports editor
By Brad Hollingsworth
Sports Editor
Jim Perry, the university's sports information director, resigned late Thursday to take the vacant sports editor position at the Los Angeles Herald-Ex-aminer, effective Feb. 13.
Perry has been with the university for 10 years, including seven years as the radio commentator working with Tom Kelly on KNX-AM 1070 before taking the position with the Herald-Examiner.
Tim Tessalone, one of Perry's assistants, will become the new- sports information director.
"I'm in charge and nobody else is — that's the simpliest way to put it/' Perry said. "It was a combination of me seeking them out and them seeking me out."
Perry, 41, said he was contacted by the Herald-Examiner about three-and-half weeks ago, but waited until Thursday to make his decision.
"I really solicited them for the job," he said. "I had been approached by three other newspapers to be sports editor, but this one (the Herald-Examiner) was something I really wanted, so I kept in close touch with the people at the Herald.”
Perry spent six years at the Herald-Examiner as a sportswriter, covering USC and UCLA football and also writing features on the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers and Rams before coming to the university in 1974, where he has been out of the newspaper business for the last 10 years.
"I wouldn't say I'm nervous, but I would say I'm really stimulated," Perry said. "I've never been too far away. It's not like I became an engineer at Rockwell or something. It's like a good runner who hasn't run, I've just got to get into the groove."
Athletic Director Richard Perry said he hated to lose someone like Jim Perry, who was one of the best sports information directors in the country. But Richard Perry said the university's sports information department is a platform for upward mobility, and Jim Perry's move doesn't worry’ the university's athletic director.
"Since Jim has been away from hands-on journalism for so long, (his new job) speaks for how’ good his talents are," said Richard Perry.
Tessalone, 28, graduated from the university in 1977 and said his new job is a "dream come true" for him since he came to work for Perry five years ago. t
"Taking over for him (Perry) is like (former UCLA basketball coach) Gene Bartow taking over for (former Bruin basketball coach) John Wooden," Tessalone said. "One of the reasons I came here was to become the head man."
Tessalone said Perry's new job is a great opportunity for him and it gives the university another friend in the media. He also said he isn't worried about the transition.
"As far as him leaving, he's (Perry) been here for
10 years and he leaves me with one of the best sports information departments in the country, and you can ask anyone about that," Tessalone said. "We have a great staff with a strong backbone so everything will be copacetic."

(sMSy trojan
Volume XCV, Number 9
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 19, 1984
Rivers finds laughs Bryin at UCLA . . . oops, USC
By Chris Willman
Entertainment Writer
and Cornell Barnard
City Writer
"Ladies and gentlemen/' said Joan Rivers over the PA, introducing opening comedian Gary Shandling, "UCLA presents — oops, I know, I know, USC ... I read the check."
And what a check it was —
525,000, if her exit line to last night's capacity crowd in Bo-vard Auditorium was to be believed. But the audience, many of whom camped out all night in line for the floor-level $13.50 seats, clearly felt she was worth it, awarding her standing ovations upon her entrance and exit (and even a re-entry after a microphone replacement).
The few boos came when she referred to a fictional concert the night before at UCLA, though this was actually her first college concert in five years.
Of course, Rivers is no stranger to boos, having brought down on herself more than her share of wrath from the more sensitive in the past for her celebrity attacks, like these last night:
On Ted Kennedy: "He has a bumper sticker on his car that says 'I brake for fish.' "
On Liz Taylor: "Liz wore a yellow dress once and 10 kids tried to board her."
On Jesse Jackson: "The man's a great dancer and singer, but I'm sorry, that is not enough!"
On Jane Fonda: "I was going to buy her tape, but she wanted 75 bucks for it, so screw her. Henry Fonda's exercise tape is only $5 and a lot easier. It only has two exercises: rolling your
eyes back and dropping dead."
On Kansas: "Did you see The Day After? I was rooting for the goddam missile."
On Yoko Ono: "Is she ugly? If you ever saw her float in your pool, you'd kill your pet. I have a theory: I think John Lennon killed himself."
National Enquirer types weren't the only ones embarrassed by Rivers. One young woman in the front row was asked her bra size during a routine, not to mention when she first menstruated. (She was reimbursed at the close with an eight-foot palm Rivers dragged across the stage.)
And, as usual, self-denigration was a prominent part of Rivers' routine. "If you're not pretty, you better be funny," she noted, but most of the crowd seemed to think she was both as it gave her wolf-whistles for a resplendent black gown allegedly borrow’ed from Michael Jackson.
"Mv mother tried to have an
abortion," she claimed. "She never said so, but I was bom with a coat hanger in my ear. Every night she would tell me to go hang myself up."
Her own bust size wras a primary target, as she recalled desperate teenage summers of no growth. "Do you know what it's like to put sugar and water on your chest and pray for killer bees?"
Rivers also had some advice for the female students in the audience. "I spit on education for women. Girls, be serious! All you need is a pretty face and a trick pelvis, and you're home-free."
Jackie Onassis was praised as "the smartest woman of our generation. She was smart and lucky — smart to marry him and lucky to have him drop dead and leave 28 million bucks."
Marrying rich makes up for the trouble of faking orgasms, she added. "You close your eyes and start saying store names: (Continued on page 3)
CRAIG STEWART DAILY TROJAN
JOAN RIVERS
Professors’ salaries vary with gender
By Jennifer Cray
Gty Writer %
Female faculty members at the university earned lower salaries during the 1982-83 school year than male faculty members of the same rank, according to a recent federal study.
The average salary of a female faculty member at the university last year was $30,900, while the average male faculty member earned $35,300. These numbers represent the average salaries for professors, associate professors and assistant professors.
The difference in pay is consistent with national averages, according to figures compiled from more than 2,700 colleges and universities by the National Center for Education Statistics.
On the national level, women in the three highest professorial
ranks received a mean salary of $23,487, while men received $29,001 — a difference of 19 percent.
The statistics show that the higher the rank of the professor at the university, the wider the gap between male and female salaries.
Women having the rank of full professor made an average of $39,600 last year, $5,600 less than the $45,200 earned by males at the same level. Women at the assistant professor level earned an average of $23,400, a difference of $3,600 from the average male assistant professor's salarv of $27,000.
Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, said that ''rank by rank, discipline by discipline," women
(Continued on page 3)
Jim Perry leaves post
for Herald-Examiner
JON SOO HOO
JIM PERRY
Sports information director takes job as sports editor
By Brad Hollingsworth
Sports Editor
Jim Perry, the university's sports information director, resigned late Thursday to take the vacant sports editor position at the Los Angeles Herald-Ex-aminer, effective Feb. 13.
Perry has been with the university for 10 years, including seven years as the radio commentator working with Tom Kelly on KNX-AM 1070 before taking the position with the Herald-Examiner.
Tim Tessalone, one of Perry's assistants, will become the new- sports information director.
"I'm in charge and nobody else is — that's the simpliest way to put it/' Perry said. "It was a combination of me seeking them out and them seeking me out."
Perry, 41, said he was contacted by the Herald-Examiner about three-and-half weeks ago, but waited until Thursday to make his decision.
"I really solicited them for the job," he said. "I had been approached by three other newspapers to be sports editor, but this one (the Herald-Examiner) was something I really wanted, so I kept in close touch with the people at the Herald.”
Perry spent six years at the Herald-Examiner as a sportswriter, covering USC and UCLA football and also writing features on the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers and Rams before coming to the university in 1974, where he has been out of the newspaper business for the last 10 years.
"I wouldn't say I'm nervous, but I would say I'm really stimulated," Perry said. "I've never been too far away. It's not like I became an engineer at Rockwell or something. It's like a good runner who hasn't run, I've just got to get into the groove."
Athletic Director Richard Perry said he hated to lose someone like Jim Perry, who was one of the best sports information directors in the country. But Richard Perry said the university's sports information department is a platform for upward mobility, and Jim Perry's move doesn't worry’ the university's athletic director.
"Since Jim has been away from hands-on journalism for so long, (his new job) speaks for how’ good his talents are," said Richard Perry.
Tessalone, 28, graduated from the university in 1977 and said his new job is a "dream come true" for him since he came to work for Perry five years ago. t
"Taking over for him (Perry) is like (former UCLA basketball coach) Gene Bartow taking over for (former Bruin basketball coach) John Wooden," Tessalone said. "One of the reasons I came here was to become the head man."
Tessalone said Perry's new job is a great opportunity for him and it gives the university another friend in the media. He also said he isn't worried about the transition.
"As far as him leaving, he's (Perry) been here for
10 years and he leaves me with one of the best sports information departments in the country, and you can ask anyone about that," Tessalone said. "We have a great staff with a strong backbone so everything will be copacetic."